 | Gail Rae - 1998 - 124 Seiten
...are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer flow'r is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity. For sweetest things turn sourest... | |
 | Robert K. Greenleaf - 1998 - 354 Seiten
...will do none. (Not very little, but none.) This is the sonnet that concludes with those caustic Unes: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. The intervening eleven lines will bear close scrutiny. The firm aim of the servant is that no... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...I had thee. as a dream doth flatter, In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. 10556 Sonnet 94 for opinlon in good men is but knowledge in the making. 7464 Areopagitica Methinks I see weeds. 10557 Sonnet 97 How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting... | |
 | Barbara McBride-Smith - 1998 - 130 Seiten
...and burned him, ever so slightly. His eyes opened, and when he saw Psyche looking at him, he said, "Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds. Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."2 Which meant: "You didn't trust me, so I can't trust you, and now I gotta go." Cupid flew out... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 Seiten
...is not only the evidence of social status but also a tactic of self-protection: The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity. For sweetest things turn sourest... | |
 | Wendy Wasserstein - 2000 - 84 Seiten
...are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if thal flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn... | |
 | Alan Haehnel - 2000 - 44 Seiten
...The summer's flow' r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself only live and die, But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves...their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds." (Ms. Drew holds up the grade; Donna is clearly disappointed, but resigned.) MS. DREW. Thank-you,... | |
 | Jenaro Talens - 2000 - 438 Seiten
...are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: 340 For sweetest things turn... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 Seiten
...expense; 6 They are the lords and owners of their faces, 7 Others but stewards of their excellence. 8 The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; 10 But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: 12 For sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 540 Seiten
...a great mistake about them: they are noble. Look how beautiful such lines as these are: 'The summer flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' [94.9 fJ, and 'And peace proclaims olives of endless age' [107.8]." To WM ROSSETTI (Some Reminiscences,... | |
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That do not do the thing they most do show, Who moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow; They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces,... 
